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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine






Ooo, that looks like one of the heavy Bolters from the FW drop troopers... Have you got something related in the works?

Great work on the commander and sniper as well!

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chigwell, essex

well, its definately visually based off one of those.

Its actually made from a valkyrie heavy bolter with the topsights and the cylindrical bit above the barrel removed then replaced with an inverted support-rung/muzzle of an astartes assaultcannon.
the rear stock and pistolgrip is off a kantrael lasgun.

As my droptroops and bebbanburg commandos are inspired by the elysians somewhat, I decided to make some similarly designed weapons, thus the bullpup lascarbines onthe commandos and this compact, more portable heavybolter...
   
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That tank commander looks really good, I am a big fan of victoria's stuff, nicely painted.

Sniper turned out really good, nice detail on keeping those leaves varied,I agree really sells the camoflague that bit more.

   
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chigwell, essex

thanks!

Something a little diferent today.

Inspired by the model of the rogue trader Mariella Danbury I did a while back, My wife has written up a short story based on Lady Danbury's adventures and set it in an appropriately grim and dark future sci fi world, which may or may not have similarites to other sci-fi worlds living or dead...
Its not without it's humor though as you'll no doubt notice from the title alone!
Its also a loveletter to all other good sci fi we all know and love from the 80's and 90's, so do go check it out here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fs5jybhe5u44i07/Lady%20Mariella%20Danbury.pdf?dl=0

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chigwell, essex

So, yeah its been a while I know, but between work and weather I've been busy as hell...

anyway, had a few moments this afternoon so took the time to do the final bebbanburg commando:

as you can see this is the one with the ksg shotgun. I did it with what would be a faux-wood stock, kinda akin to this paintjob done on this real-world ksg:


the shells on the back come from the deathwatch sprue and the torso is a fatigue one rather than a greatcoat one. simply because thats all I had left at the time, LOL!
as I used one of the not-gasmask heads I elected to add the mask to the waist, this time alongside an enforcer's grenade, for a bit of speciality.
I wanted this guy to look like a veteran after-all...

this marks the last of the 39th as far as I'm concerned...
so don't look here for more minis in peadot camo any more :(

but the 42nd are still going strong! I will get on with those guys soon as I can, folks, so its not the end of the thread by any means.
also got vehicles etc to do too, so yeah, just the 39th I'm done with for now...
bit of a relief to not have to paint any more bloody peadot camo! LOL
   
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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine






Nice little trooper, wood effect KSG is a neat idea!

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chigwell, essex

thanks!

another character for the filey 42nd today,


Sergeant Barney 'Plucky' Jameson.
Lifelong friends with Captain Stevens since childhood, back on Filey Secondus and now his 1st sgt, Plucky is with Cap to the end of the line...


yup, its Vikky Lamb's colonel Ash 'Ironside' mini.
I swapped out the right arm for an anvil-industries one with the addition of a shotgun from the atalan jackals set, simply because it was better quality casting than on the one that came with the kit...

here he is alongside his old bud, Cap;


only took a couple of hours. came out rather well tbh...

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Albany, NY

The pair look great together I had to look up the original mini, I'm shocked how little work you did to update it, fits right in. Great face as well.

Nice shotgun trooper earlier as well. Man, the KSG is a beast!

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Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot







Nice work on the sergeant and the shotgun Bebbanburger. Although i think a genuine timber KSG would be much much nicer.
Victoria's characters are always a treat when painted up well and her sculpting of faces is excellent. I think the 2 characters look great together. I can see perhaps a squad of characterful veterans coming together. Fireteam Stevens.

   
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Antwerp

Sweet updates. I should check this one more often.

'The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.' -- The Duke of Wellington

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chigwell, essex

thanks folks.

in truth I've not really planned on more than 'cap' and 'plucky' as command figures for the FDT.
but I won't say it'll never happen...

today I've got the first of my Filey Droptroop Stormtroopers done:


Sgt. Hayes
A no-nonsense sort, Hayes believes that there's no problem in the galaxy he can't fix with a can-do attitude and a set of brass knuckles...


as you can see, he's packed with detail, referencing not only the kasrkin and original 3rd ed stormtroopers but also the regular filey droptroops I've done before.
the straps on his augmented drop-boots were a particular cowson to highlight! LOL
agin, the brass knuckes were taken from a bloodbowl mini...


here he is alonside the regular trooper.
the augmented boots give a chunky, up-armoured look yet obviously sell the idea of a more specialist droptrooper.
The helmet is similar enough in design to be kin, yet, with the blastshield, a great visual tie-in to the 3rd ed st's.
The mass of kit is also very stormtrooper.
the chunkier armour and that also helps.
What I mean is if the regular filey trooper is cadian, then this is the kasrkin to his cadian...


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Boom! Leman Russ Commander






Oslo Norway

He oozes character. Looks like a badass!

   
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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine






Very cool stormtrooper and great work on the hero's!

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chigwell, essex

thanks guys, Damn, its been hard to get too enthused on this project recently...

anyway, heres another guardsmen:

A droptroop Corporal.


You can see that I, again, made up another backpack on this one, like on the stormtrooper sgt.
In place of the chute/bedroll I went for the pouch/cup combo accessory and then added a gs scarf so as to put the camo pattern on him that way...
he also uses the entrenching tool as opposed to a bootknife, just to add a little more character to him.
in games terms, he's just another guardsmen, but I like the idea of having corporals as well as sgt's so that the squad can split into two fireteams as wanted. Just a bit of flavour for the droptroops that differs them from the 39th.
of course, I had to do the tin-cup in white/blue enamel...

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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine






Haha the tin cup is great!
Another excellent trooper!

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Powerful Chaos Warrior





In the Loft

Damn, he's awesome. The cup adds a very subtle splash of colour, personality and comedy!!
   
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chigwell, essex

thanks guys, though something important I must stress.

Cups of Tea are no laughing matter...
the entire british empire was built on them.
and if you think I'd let my filey boys go to war without one you'd be very much mistaken, mate!

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Albany, NY

I'm here to shout out that cup as well

But I'll also gush over the broken visor on the drop sarge, great detail on a proper badass

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Boom! Leman Russ Commander






Looks really nice as usual. Would be great to see your whole army together on some board with terrain some day.

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Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot







Great work on the corporal, his pose is really natural, camo scarf was a nice touch and again the cup, easily accessible so you're not wasting precious time when the opportunity to get a brew on presents itself.

   
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chigwell, essex

many thanks guys...

been on the ol' camera again:


















Yes, you've seen it all before, but I just needed some better quality shots of some bits for something I'm doing and I thought I'd share them here too!
   
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Dipping With Wood Stain





Another triumph of a project! Every model is well though-out and meticulously built, and the paintwork is gorgeous. Very inspiring!

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chigwell, essex

many thanks...

so, as if you didnt know, warhammer day has been again and we have this to show for it:

Spoiler:




now what can I say?

well, at first I wasn't sure about them. then I kinda liked them, then I realised just how much my filey droptroops look just like these...
I don't know who the designer is but they are really taking the gw line down a different visual path. its intersting I'll say that.

but there are concerns, here at the OSJC bunker...
many of the components look to be pre-molded. the gubbins and kit on the waist for one and the waist join on many looks to be a one-peice jobby.
the classic designs of the waterbottles have been ditched for a much smaller and, in truth, sensibly designed alternative, but, as I've mentioned before it was a point of identity in the IG design cues, one that I'll be sad to see go tbh. but yeah, thats just me being a nostalgia freak.
grenades and pockets, backpacks and webbing are also updated but in truth, excellent, and distributed in a manner I would choose to do anyway.

the new gaiters and armour is much more sensibly proportioned and the helmets much MUCH less goofy. more generic ww2 gi or even nam era than the starshiptrooper style 2002 cadian. in fact they have slightly recaptured the 'aliens' colonial marine stylings of the old metal cadians some with these lids...
the sleeker shoulder pads are good and look akin to the new dkok ones if I'm honest. however the knee pads look absurd.
I know they're supposed to be sewn-in to the fabric but they just look like a cheap conversion where someone has forgotton to sculpt the straps...
the lasguns are ok and a great improvement over the chunky-assed kantrael ones they currently have. note that they, like myself have chosen to do both fullstock and carbine versions mixed in the squads, which does create a good bit of visual diversity in there.
the real issue on these is going to be scale... gw is all over the place with scale these days. all I can say is that as these are confirmed to be 25mm bases on the baseline troops and 28.5mm on the command squad these do look tall... not primaris tall but tall nonetheless...
hopefully not too tall but I guess we'll need to see side-by-sides before we can make that call eh?

as you all know by now there's kasrkin and heavy weapons to gawp at too, but all I've said about these above minis covers them too. I can say now that I rather dislike the new kasrkin (can't put my finger on why, just too sleek and not enough chunk I think) and the heavy-heavy weapons have potential (the crew and gear anyhow) but its a shame there's no heavy mortar...

yep, tripping on a gold brick and complaining again...

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That is a bit weird, didn't they just revamp the cadian box?
I do like the new helmets. Doing the highly technical test of closing one's eye and holding an old cadian up between oneself and the figure and screen and one's own open eyeball and lining the 25mm base up till it just fully obscures the one on screen(assuming these guys are on 25mm bases) it seems they maybe the height as the old cadians. I really hope my test is correct.

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chigwell, essex

very technical! LOL its a fair point, and I can confirm that the word from GW is that these are on 25mm bases. just the command squad on 28.5mm

as for the revamp? yeah I gotta say that i think we are getting this way WAY earlier than intended.
the initial photo-leak was definately not planned in my opinion, but its forced gw's hand and theyve had to change the schedule around somewhat...
I think folks would be surprised at just how big the gulf of time is between design, implementation and then sales of said designs.

tis my reckoning that the head-sprue add-on in the cadian box was a 'do-for' us, for at the very least, the next year or so, while they worked on the new releases.
but as I say, their hand has been forced...

OR?
not...
just my surmising afterall... I don't work for gw so what do I really know...

I still think it will be well into next year till we get it somehow. unless I've missed some info on the 'when' of it all... don't know if anyone can elaborate on that?




for now, I'm just wondering what anvil's brodie heads would look like on one of these new cadians...

hmm...

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Looks pretty legit. Although I'd suspect the anvil head would look a little bit chunkier.
But then again i have been surprised by their results in the past. For instance they graft well enough to the slightly less robust Vic miniatures well enough.

   
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chigwell, essex

true... I did make it a little too small there didn't I.

also thinking about what the mad-robot heads would look like too...

really like how this one would look...
   
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 osjclatchford wrote:

for now, I'm just wondering what anvil's brodie heads would look like on one of these new cadians...

hmm...


I wonder if the helmet heads off Wargames Atlantic's Bulldogs would be a better fit with the new Cadian proportions?

   
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chigwell, essex

So. yes its been ages. but yes I am still here.
However, a month ago my Dad nearly wasn't.
I shant bore you with the details but he's still convalessing back home but it means all my free time away from work is taken up making sure he and my Mum are ok.
hence no models from me for an age now.


so. I got hold of the cadian shocktroop sprue...
sigh...
should have listened to my gut instinct before...

the dreaded scale issue is exactly as I feared. they tower over my filey and eoforwich guard by a good head and a half.

seriously GW, why truescale the marines with primaris and then make everything else bigger too?

I only bought these as I was assured that they are the same scale as the orignals too, ARGH! its annoying...

I shall try to keep the rant to a minimum but I will say this too; take a good, hard, long-old look at the models on the box. because thats what you're building. I honestly think its designed specifically to make conversion very very tireslomely difficult.
headswaps aside.
thats one thing that will be easy and espescially with the anvil stuff as the heads and sockets share the ball/socket joint design...
I cant help but wonder if this is part of a gw plan to release resin upgrade headswaps like the HH marines kits or if its just so you can use the multitude of heads across the new cadian range on essentially any cadian mini.

the gear/nades etc... is indeed all modelled on as the sprue pics showed and the scale of the gubbins (bottles, pockets etc...) versus the minis is more akin to boltaction mini's truescale than gw's somewhat comicly scaled stuff of old.
some might be pleased with this but, again, I find myself dissapointed to see the character of imperial guard being lost, I'll admit its cartoonesque but its how evrything in 40k has been for years.
even the new DKOK didnt stray from this too far.

its essentially resulted in a bunch of models that are somewhat at odds with a lot of the other human-scaled minis in the 40k range.
seriously, go put a gs-cult guy next to the new cadians. He's very short, no..?
the kasrkins are even worse, being more like the palanite enforcer scale but thats another issue entirely and one I've more than bored you all with before now.

I used one thing from it. thats all:

The grenade launcher was just the thing to improve the one I had in my squad (formerly using the dkok one) I found I rather liked the chunkier look and decided to also add the old "spare drum" pocket from the old cadian sprue but only had an old painted one. worry ye not it'll look fine painted. (FYI this no longer exists on the the new sprue so go get them wile you can before the old sprue is likely gone forever... unless they keep them for generic/non cadian who knows?)
the backpack is from the atalan jackals and is just an excuse for a chunky backpack to match the overall big-ol-lump this model has become. It makes him stand out more from the rank and file, which is nice as the dkok breach loader he had before was a little too subtle for my liking...

Look, you know I'm an experianced modeller and in truth, I could make it work. but why would I bother spending all that money and time gs-ing the the livng daylights out of bad joins and repairing cut-off sections when I could simply buy stuff from anvil that's already the right design, more importantly the right scale and, of course its 100% poseable already, then just add the kit and nades and pockets where I want it anyway...
aside from raiding GW sprues for specific 40k bits (like the dkok lasguns/backpacks marine pockets/grenades) I'm thinking it's anvil or bust for me where guard are concerned now...

oh yeah, talking of anvil theres this too to show:

a wip character for the FDT...

for those interested, I think I shall be selling the remains of the sprue (minus its nade-launcher obviously). I know I could use more from it but I'm so dissapointed and ashamed to think I bought into the hype that everytime I peruse it to come up with something I just put the sprue away again five minutes later.

I'll wait till I get paint on stuff again before showing more methinks...
thanks again for all the support folks!

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chigwell, essex

as if you all didnt know already, its been cold.
damnably cold. too bloody cold.

but you know what Sister Haines says - "...cold is the Emperor's way of telling us to burn more heretics!"


A member of the order of the wedgewood chalice, Sister Olivia Haines is spiritual advisor to the troops in the Eoforwich system.
Ensuring that all will hear her rousing fervour, she is armed with an arcane comlink system, complete with backing tracks with such hits as "death to the deviant" and "righteous duty is its own reward" in order to give her speech the garandeur she believes it deserves.
when words fail, her lasgun "his blade" is sure to add spice to the sentiment...


yes. its the Anvil industy "evangelist" mini.
All I did was swap out the lasgun barrel for a dkok one and the rest is 'out the box'.
An exercise in painting something bright, I wanted to touch on the wedgewood blue as on my SoB Kar Dunaish ships I did for BFG, but decided I could not find the EXACT colour I wanted in the citadel range, so I simply went and bought some acylic wedgewood blue paint from hobbycraft.
I first started with a codex grey (dawnstone in todays money?) base on the white/blue bits over my usual black spray undercoat.
the wedgwood blue was shaded by adding adeptus-battlegrey to it and highlighted by adding successive white ink
the rest of her kit is my usual wood, leather, steel and brass as on the other Eoforwich/Filey troops.
I toyed around doing the armour the same green as on my troopers but in the end felt that a blue was the best compliment. its the same blue as on Cap's helm so thats a good enough tie-in for me...

more soon...

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